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Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao made panicked last call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch: report
nypost ^ | 3/9/2024 | Patrick Reilly

Posted on 03/09/2024 7:09:04 AM PST by bitt

Angela Chao, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law, spent her last minutes alive frantically calling her friends for help as her Tesla slowly sank in a pond on a remote Texas ranch, according to a report.

Chao, the billionaire former CEO of dry bulk shipping giant Foremost Group, tragically died at the age of 50 on Feb. 10 after accidentally backing her car into the pond while making a three-point turn.

The driving mishap was detailed in a report by The Wall Street Journal that shed light on the chaotic rescue efforts that ultimately came up short, turning what was supposed to be a celebratory weekend with friends into a nightmare.

Chao invited several of her girlfriends from Harvard Business School to spend the weekend on a gorgeous, sprawling 900-acre private property in Texas’ Hill Country, that included horse stables, a swimming pool and a 10-bedroom guesthouse, the Journal reported.

After eating dinner together and celebrating the Chinese New Year on Friday night, Chao left the guesthouse around 11:30 p.m. to head back to the main house, where her son was sleeping. It was cold out, so she decided to take her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute drive rather than walk.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: angela; angelachao; chao; kentucky; mademitchretire; mcconnell; mcconnellsil; mitch; mitchmcconnell; texas; warning; warning2mitch
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To: bitt

Sandwiched between The Old Stupid Traitorous Fart retiring, and the discovery of WiFi on shipping cranes from chi-nuh


21 posted on 03/09/2024 7:26:26 AM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: bitt

Is this still under criminal investigation ?


22 posted on 03/09/2024 7:27:43 AM PST by erlayman (E )
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To: brownsfan
DWAW
23 posted on 03/09/2024 7:32:20 AM PST by Grampa Dave (“Surrender means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control.” — Sylvia Boorstein.)
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To: Candor7

Lol


24 posted on 03/09/2024 7:32:39 AM PST by Gary from Dayton (Army Vet 1986-1991)
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To: bitt

With Chynah Mitch stepping aside, who’s the new Big Dog on the ChiCom payroll running our US Senate?


25 posted on 03/09/2024 7:38:36 AM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: bitt

Something smells bad in Texas.


26 posted on 03/09/2024 7:39:01 AM PST by chopperk (s to )
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To: ConservativeMind

>>Actually, an Asian friend of my wife, who was born in Taiwan, says Asian women are the worst drivers and don’t care what they do to others. I guess it is the culture, which basically sucks.<<

My wife, who is Filipina, says Chinese woman drivers in Manila are notorious for being awful drivers. Usually they kill Filipino pedestrians instead of themselves.


27 posted on 03/09/2024 7:39:22 AM PST by rod5591
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To: bitt

Most ‘unintended accelerations’ come from ‘foot on the wrong pedal, the accelerator pedal, not the brake pedal. This is particularly common in vehicles the driver is unaccustomed to.


28 posted on 03/09/2024 7:41:14 AM PST by norwaypinesavage
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To: bitt

“Message in a bottle…”

The Police


29 posted on 03/09/2024 7:41:27 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: Shady

“Did someone else “drive” the Tesla into reverse at high speed?”

Not according to Angela.


30 posted on 03/09/2024 7:42:46 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: bitt

Is anyone else concerned that Mitch has a sister-in-law who was so deeply connected with the CCP? Then there was Nancy Pelosi who hired a Chinese man from Communist China as a chauffeur. There have been other lovers and close biasness associates deeply connected with the CCP and other lawmakers. I can tell you that when I had a Top Secret, if anyone in my family was married to or had a business connection to Russia or the CCP that would be the end of my access to anything sensitive. But our superiors? Rules don’t apply.


31 posted on 03/09/2024 7:42:50 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: null and void

Sending a message to a family member perhaps?


32 posted on 03/09/2024 7:43:00 AM PST by bigbob
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To: rod5591

So you are a billionaire, so you have a car, so you are a female asian driver, so it is dark, so you are in an unfamiliar area, so you have been drinking, so there is a lake nearby. Why didn’t she have a driver and so forth? Maybe she was a friend of obamas’ private chef?


33 posted on 03/09/2024 7:43:51 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: bitt

One, Asian women can’t drive. Two, she should’ve stayed in China. Three, hard to gin up a lot of sympathy for a Harvard dumb ass having a Harvard reunion of dumbasses.
They are ruining Texas. What kind of idiot drives off into a stock tank? And all my time in Texas I’ve never heard of that happening even once.


34 posted on 03/09/2024 7:43:57 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: bitt

Our betters…


35 posted on 03/09/2024 7:44:11 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: ConservativeMind
I was a military police officer in Korea during the 90's. I extended my tour twice for different positions, the last of which was as community provost marshal in Yongsan (Seoul). As such, I had a lot of interaction with the Korean National Police over off-post collisions between US and host nation drivers. Back then at least, Korean traffic was scary, with the only mitigating factor being that the frequent traffic jams tended to keep a lot of collision velocities to a minimum.

While I have no formal study to back this up, my theory is that in the US, motor vehicles were first introduced as a luxury for a select few, then something of a more utilitarian necessity, and over time became the widespread everyday, taken for granted phenomenon it is today. Thus, our culture has had over a century to evolve customs and courtesies of the road, traffic laws driver's ed programs, etc. Kids grew up as passengers with mom or dad driving and learned some of this by osmosis, and over time, road networks, gas stations, and other infrastructure grew in concert with motor vehicle usage.

In Korea, and presumably some other Asian countries, motor vehicles remained toys of the wealthy for a long time until sudden burgeoning economies in the 80s led to the immediate widespread availability of cars without any slow evolution or inculcation of driving culture, or the opportunity to build supporting road networks. You had young adults as new car buyers who came from house holds that rode trains, busses or in rural areas, ox carts all through their childhood. Without learning or developing good driving habits, they merely reinforced bad habits every time they got behind the wheel...and now they're teaching the next generations to drive.

Just my theory....

36 posted on 03/09/2024 7:44:47 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“I can see how a distracted, older person might get it wrong.”

That is what Angela said she did. OTOH, I am 77. From this side, 50 is young!


37 posted on 03/09/2024 7:45:39 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: brownsfan

Not sure about Asian woman drivers but I can say from experience that you will never fear for your life as much as when you drive in Mexico City. Traffic laws are considered to be ‘suggestions’ if they are considered at all. Lane changing has only one rule - if your front bumper is 1mm in front of mine, you have the right of way ... time for me to stand on the brakes ‘cause that car is coming over!

Frikkin’ lunacy down there.


38 posted on 03/09/2024 7:45:48 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: lee martell

Yeah, this could’ve been you or me. I mean, who among us hasn’t driven their car backwards into a stock tank in Texas *on their own property* and not have the sense to open the door or drop a window?
++++ Oriental women can’t drive ++++


39 posted on 03/09/2024 7:49:44 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: null and void

Agree .. everyone should carry a glass breaker in their vehicle.


40 posted on 03/09/2024 7:52:00 AM PST by HollyB
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